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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Maura is a veteran middle and high school teacher who is Teachers College educated. She is the creator and teacher of Writing Rules. She has been a sixth grade Language Arts teacher for thirteen years. Prior to this experience, she has worked in the high school setting in New York City. Maura has a wealth of experience in financially-stable as well as more fiscally-challenged environments, urban and rural-suburban settings, and with early and late stage teenagers. This background allows her to come to education with a variety of very accessible, multi-disciplinary techniques. She will bring out the best in your students using novel approaches and exciting methods. See for yourself by downloading a free sample of her work.

MY TEACHING STYLE

Today's students are pop-culture savvy and any teaching technique presented to them should ideally reflect the interests and events that have shaped them. Stuffy grammar concepts with no context in students' real lives will quickly be forgotten. Their attention will increase if the subject matter is contextually more relevant to them. The ability to use their own influences to capture their attention is possible. The average teaching plans and tools, for the most part, do not create a sense of exhilaration and enthusiasm that would therefore encourage students to continue into higher education.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate level

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Columbia University Teachers College, January 1999
Awarded Master of Arts in English Education
Partial Scholarship Awarded
The New School, December 1995
Awarded Bachelor of Arts in English
Pen and Brush Club Award